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To: Kaslin

uh...


"These included using a Quran as a pillow, ripping pages out of the Quran, attempting to flush a Quran down the toilet and urinating on the Quran," Hood's report said. It offered no possible explanation for the detainees' actions."


http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/06/03/guantanamo.quran/index.html

The Hood report cited three separate incidents in which detainees tried to flush the Quran down the toilet.

In one incident, on February 23, 2004, the report said a guard saw a "detainee place two Qurans in his toilet and state he no longer cared about the Quran or his religion.

Five minutes later, after the detainee retrieved the Qurans, he ripped several pages out of one Quran and threw the pages on the floor. Then, he placed both Qurans on the sink."

Another time, on January 19, 2005, a detainee "tore up his Quran and tried to flush it down the toilet. Four guards witnessed the incident," the report said.

The report also cited 12 other incidents by detainees, including one who used his Quran as a pillow, another who urinated on his holy book and several who ripped pages from the Quran.

Capt. Jeff Weir, an Army spokesman at the facility, told CNN in a phone interview that the detainees were typically trying to stage some form of protest when they mishandled the Quran.


3 posted on 06/04/2005 1:40:38 PM PDT by Pikamax
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To: Pikamax
Someone posted this link from Southern Command this morning. Very interesting read (PDF file

http://www.southcom.mil/pa/Media/Releases/PR050603a.pdf

Sorry it won't cyber link

7 posted on 06/04/2005 2:05:11 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Pikamax
"The Hood report cited three separate incidents in which detainees tried to flush the Quran down the toilet."

Where is the outrage over the desecration of an American Military Toilet in such a demeaning manor?? I'm ready to riot. I want my reperations. Now.

10 posted on 06/04/2005 2:37:34 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: Pikamax
The report also cited 12 other incidents by detainees, including one who used his Quran as a pillow

I didn't know the book was so useful.
12 posted on 06/04/2005 3:04:21 PM PDT by Blowtorch
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To: Pikamax
"These included using a Quran as a pillow, ripping pages out of the Quran, attempting to flush a Quran down the toilet and urinating on the Quran," Hood's report said. It offered no possible explanation for the detainees' actions."

Call me insensitive, but I really don't give a sh*t if they were...had it been the Bible it would have gotten no mention at all. We have to stop kissing the Muslims Islamofascist terrorists a$$es...isn't that what freedom of religion and speech is all about?

13 posted on 06/04/2005 3:19:17 PM PDT by RockinRight (Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
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